Improving uptake of Evidence-informed Health Policies in Guinea

The objective of the programme is to improve the use of scientific evidence in drafting and applying health policies in Guinea. Which requires higher education to conduct good research, and practice effective communication and advocacy skills to convince stakeholders to use the evidence available to come to the most productive policies that really influence the people who need it most: the vulnerable groups in society. In the Guinea '22-'26 programme we aim to increase the uptake of evidence informed policies in the health sector in Guinea. Having evidence-based health policies accepted and applied by important stakeholders contributes to the realization of the SDG on health (SDG3). The approach focuses on higher education (Output – OP1-SDG 4.3) and research (OP2) and builds the institutional capacity of the two partner institutions, CNFRSR Maferinyah and CEA-PCMT (OP3). ITM worked with partner Maferinyah in the last five years (2017-2021), and we now build on the lessons learned and include a second partner, CEA-PCMT, which was created partly by the activities in the first five years. Institutional capacity strengthening includes attention for resource development by the institutions to create sustainable ‘drivers of change’ – that capacity is a combination of self-reliant and sustainable institutions that have optimal technical and educational skills as well as the skills it takes for getting ...(+2 characters extra in FundHub text)